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Saturday, 31 December 2011

Golden Pint Awards 2011

I've had to edit the categories slightly as there seems to have been a typo in the original ;-) and I'm not going to go on about the brewery I work at as that would be wrong, wonderful though our beers are.

Best UK Cask Beer:Westerham Audit Ale. I'd been after it for some time and it was very good.Least Bad UK Keg Beer:Sam Smith's Extra Stout.Best UK Bottled Beer:Young's Special London Ale.Least Bad UK Canned Beer: Don't think I've drunk any canned beer this year. Best Overseas Draught Beer: Haven't drunk any of those either.Best Overseas Bottled Beer:Orval. Thanks to Stewart Howe's blog I now know it's best drunk fresh, and without the unpleasant pong Orval is even better than it is with the pong.Best Overall Beer: Westerham Audit Ale. Best Pumpclip or Label:Black Sheep Imperial Russian Stout.Best UK Brewery: Dark Star. Consistently good throughout the year.Best Overseas Brewery: Orval.Pub/Bar of the Year:The Crown.Beer Festival of the Year:Woking.Supermarket of the Year:Booths.Independent Retailer of the Year:Liquid Pleasure.Online Retailer of the Year: Don't think I've bought any beer online this year.Best Beer Book or Magazine: Kentish brewers and the brewers of Kent. I'm in it!Best Beer Blog or Website: Shut Up About Barclay Perkins. A raging torrent of beer history, and witty too.Best Beer Twitterer: I still don't really get on with twitter but I bought an album thanks to a tweet from Boak and Bailey so them.Best Online Brewery presence:Fullers.Food and Beer Pairing of the Year: Beer and cheese and onion crisps.In 2012 I’d Most Like To: finish my researches into the origins of Goldings.Open Category: Tim O'Rourke deserves an award for The Great Baltic Adventure and the wonders it's done for Imperial Russian Stout.